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Despite your best efforts and intentions, there's a limited reservoir to fellowship before you begin to rely solely on the vapors of nostalgia. Eventually, you move on, latch on to another group of friends. Once in a while, though, you remember something, a remark or a gesture, and it takes you back. You think how close all of you were, the laughs and commiserations, the fondness and affection and support. You recall the parties, the trips, the dinners and late, late nights. Even the arguments and small betrayals have a revisionist charm in retrospect. You're astonished and enlivened by the memories. You wonder why and how it ever stopped. You have the urge to pick up the phone, fire off an email, suggesting reunion, resumption, and you start to act, but then don't, because it would be awkward talking after such a long lag, and, really, what would be the point? Your lives are different now. Whatever was there before is gone. And it saddens you, it makes you feel old and vanquished--not only over this group that disbanded, but also over all the others before and after it, the friends you had in grade and high school, in college, in your twenties and thirties, your kinship to them (never mind to all your old lovers) ephemeral and, quite possibly, illusory to begin with.

~ Don Lee

Don Lee Friendship Life Nostalgia

I slept that night in the room I used to have when I was a little boy, with the summer wind blowing in at the windows, bringing the smell of the ripe fields. I lay awake and watched the moonlight shining over the barn and the stacks and the pond, and the windmill making its old dark shadow against the blue sky.

~ Willa Cather

Willa Cather Nostalgia Prairies Strong Women

And she had been in love enough times to rule out the possibility that this was merely some feat of nostalgia.

~ Galt Niederhoffer

Galt Niederhoffer Feat Love Nostalgia Possibility Rule

….For instance, I hated Pearl Jam at the time. I thought they were pompous blowhards. Now, whenever a Pearl Jam song comes on the car radio, I find myself pounding my fist on the dashboard, screaming, “Pearl JAM! Pearl JAM! Now this is rock and roll! Jeremy’s SPO-ken! But he’s still al-LIIIIIVE!

~ Rob Sheffield

Rob Sheffield Humor Music Nostalgia Pearl Jam

The age of recording is necessarily an age of nostalgia--when was the past so hauntingly accessible?--but its bitterest insight is the incapacity of even the most perfectly captured sound to restore the moment of its first inscribing. That world is no longer there.

~ Geoffrey O'brien

Geoffrey O'brien Captured Nostalgia Recording Music

The staying awake was a great self-sacrificaing gesture of friendship, and wonderfully in keeping with our current mood of intense friendship and religious fervour. We were all in a state of shock. We engaged in a long Dostojevskyan conversations and drank one black coffee after another. It was sort of night typical of youth, the sort you only can look back on with shame and embarassment once you've grown up. But God knows, I must have grown up already by then, because I don't feel the slightest embarassment when I think back to it, just a terrible nostalgia.

~ Antal Szerb

Antal Szerb Coffee Conversations Dostoievsky Melancholy Nights Nostalgia Young

how I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when i was before the mast.

~ Herman Melville

Herman Melville Nostalgia

And before me the empty table at the Theater Café with my reservation - Barnum Nilsen, 8PM - the only table no one sits at. And this too is an echo, an echo of time, the shadows of a discus spinning through blinding sunlight.

~ Lars Saabye Christensen

Lars Saabye Christensen Nostalgia

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

~ Joe Abercrombie

Joe Abercrombie Good Times Life Nostalgia

I never felt so large and important as I did when being in love was everything. I saw you walking a foot above the earth and I remembered that was where I used to walk.

~ Scott Spencer

Scott Spencer Bliss Love Nostalgia

The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov Lost Innocence Nostalgia

Ludwik Szatera was a passionate lover of nostalgia. He could never come to terms with the eternal passage of men, objects and events. Each moment inexorably turning into the past was to him precious, invaluable, and he witnessed its passing with a sense of inexpressible regret.

~ Stefan Grabiński

Stefan Grabiński Nostalgia Passing Time

She had forgotten his faults as we forgetthe sorrows of our departed childhood.

~ George Eliot

George Eliot Nostalgia

It marked the beginning and, of course, an end. At that moment a chapter, no, a whole stage of my closed. Had I known, and had there been a spare second or two, I might have allowed myself a little nostalgia.

~ Ian Mcewan

Ian Mcewan Nostalgia

1980's: not a time period but a state of mind.

~ Carrie Vaughn

Carrie Vaughn Humor Inspirational Nostalgia

nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation forWeak but detectable interaction between two neighboring universes that are otherwise not causally connected.Manifests itself in humans as a feeling of missing a place one has never been, a place very much like one’s home universe, or as a longing for versions of one’s self that one will never, and can never know.

~ Charles Yu

Charles Yu Nostalgia

The days of my youth, as I look back on them; seem to fly away from me in a flurry of pale repetitive scraps like those morning snow storms of used tissue paper that a train passenger sees whirling in the wake of the observation can.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov Nostalgia

I couldn't remember the last time I'd felt so wrapped up in someone that I saw only him, caring not a jot what onlookers might think. I ached with nostalgia for a younger, more responsive me, who seemed to feel things more intensely.

~ Catherine Sanderson

Catherine Sanderson Nostalgia Teenage Passion

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

~ Doug Larson

Doug Larson Good Old Days Nostalgia
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